Jed Babbin
For several hours last Wednesday, an insurrectionist mob attacked a joint session of Congress and prevented it from performing its constitutional duty to count the votes cast in the Electoral College to certify the results of a presidential election. The…
Yesterday, January 3, passed rather quietly, which was not at all as advertised. It was the first anniversary of the U.S. drone strike that killed Iran’s chief terrorist, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, at the Baghdad International Airport. Judging by the rather…
The year 2020 is finally almost gone, and good riddance to it. It was a stinking dumpster fire of a year, a cheesy monster movie in which the monster didn’t take its cue to die. The Kung Flu pandemic, rioters…
Last Tuesday, Russia successfully tested a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile. The test wasn’t their first. It was a progression of the Russians’ development of kinetic satellite killers, including hunter-killer satellites. The Chinese have been developing and testing such weapons since at…
Presumptive president-elect Joe Biden is appointing a slew of Obama retreads to his cabinet and White House staff. Identity politics controls many of the choices: they will be “the first woman” or “the first black American” to hold a particular…
President Trump is threatening to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on the grounds that it requires the renaming of military bases named for Confederate generals, because it would stop his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and because…
One of the greatest disabilities President Trump had in his 2016–17 transition was that he is not a political insider who knew people outside his own experience. Trump never understood the old Reagan-era principle that personnel is policy. That led…
President Trump formally exited the 1992 “Open Skies” treaty with Russia yesterday on the ground that Russia wasn’t performing its obligations under that agreement. The treaty allowed each nation to fly reconnaissance aircraft over the other to inspect weapon systems….
Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been entrapped, prosecuted, and persecuted. He pled guilty to lying to the FBI in an interview that was set up to corner him into a lie. Now, with President Trump having lost the election…
